SHAPING CITY-REGIONS, 9TH URBAN AND LANDSCAPE DAYS

The 9th Urban and Landscape Day (14th of May 2012) will consist of open keynote lectures, expert panels and discussions. Lectures will be in Rüütelkonna Hall, Toompea. The event is also coordinated with the opening of City of Helsinki’s ‘Helsinki Horizon 2030′ container, to be formally opened by Mayor of Helsinki in May 15, 2012 at 2pm and student event at 8pm at Tallinn Harbour area, Admiraliteedi basin.

PROGRAMME:

9.30-10.00           coffee and registration

10.00-10.10        welcoming words

prof. Panu Lehtovuori, Katrin Koov

PANEL 1:     regional coherence through form & landscape icons

                         Moderators Kadri Klementi and Katrin Koov

10.10-10.55        Keynote 1: Hans Mommaas, Professor of Leisure Studies, Tilburg  University, NL “The region, what region? Experiences from the Netherlands”

11.00-11.45        Keynote 2: Reinhard Micheller, landscape architect, Munich, DE

“Tallinn – Archipelago City”

11.50-12.10     Hannes Palang, Professor of human geography, director of Estonian  Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, EE

“Life in urban sprawl”

12.10-12.30        Leena Rossi, Head of General Master Planning, City of Jyväskylä, FI

“From City Region to Regional City – the power of passion, language and  landscape in planning of Jyväskylä”

12.30-12.50        Evelin Reimand, landscape architect, EE

“Catalysing urbanity with nature. Opening Lake Ülemiste to the public”

12.50-13.10        Jörn Frenzel, architect/strategic designer, eyLAND lab DE/IS

“Between form and social space – collaborative strategies for communities”

 13.10-13.40        Moderated panel discussion

13.40-14.30        lunch break (in next room)

PANEL 2:     regional coherence through process & new tools

                        Moderators Kristi Grišakov and Panu Lehtovuori

14.30-15.15        Keynote 3: Ilija Vukorep, Professor of computer-aided design and  architectural theory, Hochschule Lausitz, DE

“Digital Concepts in Urban Environments”

15.20-16.05        Keynote 4: Jürgen Rendl, cultural worker and activist,

Bratislava/ Vienna, SK/AT

“Stadlnova – a fictive suburb between Bratislava and Vienna”

 16.10-16.30        Ulla Tapaninen, Adjunct Professor of Maritime Logistics, University of Turku, Expert in International Logistics, City of Helsinki, FI

“Tallinn Helsinki – a twin city in light of passenger and cargo transport”

16.30-16.50        Martin Melioranski, architect, researcher, Estonian Academy of Arts, EE

“Measuring the Real, Computing the Actual”

16.50-17.10        Damiano Cerrone, planner, student, Estonian Academy of Arts, EE

                                    Kristjan Männigo, architect, EE

                                    Daniel Giovannini, PhD Physicist, Glasgow UK

“Simplex City, looking at urban topologies through interdisciplinary lenses”

17.10-17.40        Moderated panel discussion

17.40-18.00        Presentation of the Future Scenarios for Väo quarry, EAA Urban Studies and Landscape Architecture students                

18.00-20.00        Evening outdoors

 Post-conference opportunities:

 15.5 9am-5pm    Nordic Look conference in KUMU art museum

 

15.5 at 2pm          Opening of ‘Helsinki Horizon 2030’ container at Tallinn yacht harbour

15.5 at 6pm          Open lecture by Alejandro Zaera-Polo at LHV bank Tartu road 2

15.5 at 8pm          Evening event at ‘Helsinki Horizon 2030’ container at Admiraliteedi basin

The conference is free of charge.

 

More information:
Panu Lehtovuori

Katrin Koov

urban@artun.ee

642 0071

Sources, links:

http://stadlnova.col-me.info/-idea-/

http://www.vatnavinir.is/home

http://www.nordiclook.ee/en

http://wdchelsinki2012.fi/en

RBGC interregional roundtable and H-TTransplan meetings on April 26, 2012 in Hotel Clarion Euroopa in Tallinn

The meeting will start at 10.00 with an introduction tour to city planning in Tallinn. The roundtable will start at 13.30 with the follwing agenda:

13:30 – 13:40            Opening of the Roundtable

Representative of the City of Tallinn

13:40 -14:00             Summary of Helsinki-Tallinn Mobility

Dr. Ulla Tapaninen, Researcher, City of Helsinki and University of Turku

 14:00 – 14:20                   Rail Baltica Corridor – Qualifications and limitations for intermodal freight transports

Dr. Sönke Behrends, Chalmers Technical University, Göteborg, Sweden

14:20 – 14:40                   Operational Strategy of the Port of Helsinki

Mr Kimmo Mäki, CEO, Port of Helsinki

 Comment: Mr Erik Ringmaa, Port of Tallinn

15:00 – 15:15            Coffee Break

15:15 – 15:35                   Rail Baltica – Why freight should flow through Vuosaari-Muuga sea ports?

 

Dr. Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Professor, Lappeenranta University of Technology

 15:35 – 16:00            Road Map Towards Helsinki-Tallinn Transport Strategy

Mr Olli Keinänen, Deputy Head of International Relations Department, City of Helsinki

 

Focus group meetings on February 7-8 in Helsinki

H-TTransPlan project’s focus group meetings take place on February 7-8 in Helsinki.

All the tree focus groups (Transport, Urban Planning and Business Development) are invited to focus group meetings that are held parallel. Presentations and discussions on the Final Scenarios will take place, the Knowledge Platform and Decision Chart Visualization will be presented. The work on the  scenarios, road maps and draft conclusions will be continued.

Research team meeting on January 11 in Tallinn

Happy new H-TTranspPlan year!

The second year in the H-TTransPlan project has started. On the 11th of January the Research team will convene in Tallinn (My City Hotel at 10.00-16.00)  to tune the scenarios and update everyone’s information on the project activities. In addition to the scenarios, the knowledge platform as well as project mapping and decision-making flowchart will be discussed.

 

 

 

Focus groups meetings in Tallinn on the 9th of December

The next meeting of the H-TTransPlan project takes place in Tallinn on the 9th of December  (at 10.15-11.45, Estonian National Library, at 12.00-15.30 Roosikrantsi 4B) with  theme of mobility of people in the Helsinki-Tallinn capital region.

All the tree focus groups (Transport, Urban Planning and Business Development) are invited to the plenary and the actual focus group meetings are held parallel in the afternoon.

 

 

Focus groups meetings in Helsinki on the 31st of October

The next meeting of the H-TTransPlan project takes place in Helsinki on the 31st October (at 10.15-16.30, Aleksanterinkatu 20) with  themes of cargo flows and Rail Baltica.

Two new studies prepared by the project´s research team will be presented: Study on Cargo Flows between Helsinki and Tallinn and a study on the Mobility of People between Helsinki and Tallinn. The latter study has been prepared by university of Tartu by using the mobile positioning method and it mostly illuminates the number of people moving from Finland to Estonia and back from various viewpoints. Both studies form parts of the mobility data of people and goods gathered in the project.

All the tree focus groups (Transport, Urban Planning and Business Development) are invited to the plenary and the actual focus group meetings are held parallel in the afternoon.

 

 

Business Development Focus Group meeting in Tallinn, on the 22nd of September

The focus group meeting will be organised in the framework of the H-TTransPlan project. H-TTransPlan project works for improving transport connections between Helsinki and Tallinn metropolitan regions. It will address both short and long term challenges and solutions. The project provides new research information and analysis on mobility between Helsinki-Tallinn and the regional transport system.

The project has started with a comprehensive mobility study carried out by the research partners and the next phase is to build 2-3 scenarios on the future needs of the transport system. Scenario building is based on analyzing of mobility patterns and demand, and on identifying of bottlenecks and problems which transport operators, ferry passengers, entrepreneurs and municipalities meet. Third type of input to scenario building is mapping of all the relevant development projects, measures and strategies.

Stakeholders of the transport system are organized in three advisory focus groups: Transport, Business Development and Urban Planning. These groups together with the project partners work out the recommendations of future development of Helsinki-Tallinn region.

The first focus group on business development will convene on the 22nd of September in Tallinn with the task to  act as expert reference group to feed and comment  the preparation of the transport scenarios.

Transport focus group meeting on the 21st of September in Tallinn

The focus group meeting will be organised in the framework of the H-TTransPlan project. H-TTransPlan project works for improving transport connections between Helsinki and Tallinn metropolitan regions. It will address both short and long term challenges and solutions. The project provides new research information and analysis on mobility between Helsinki-Tallinn and the regional transport system.

The project has started with a comprehensive mobility study carried out by the research partners and the next phase is to build 2-3 scenarios on the future needs of the transport system. Scenario building is based on analyzing of mobility patterns and demand, and on identifying of bottlenecks and problems which transport operators, ferry passengers, entrepreneurs and municipalities meet. Third type of input to scenario building is mapping of all the relevant development projects, measures and strategies.

Stakeholders of the transport system are organized in three advisory focus groups: Transport, Business Development and Urban Planning. These groups together with the project partners work out the recommendations of future development of Helsinki-Tallinn region.

The first focus group on Transport will convene on the 21st of September in Tallinn with the task to  act as expert reference group to feed and comment  the preparation of the transport scenarios.

Urban Planning Focus Group on the 8th of September in Tallinn

The focus group meeting will be organised in the framework of the H-TTransPlan project. H-TTransPlan project works for improving transport connections between Helsinki and Tallinn metropolitan regions. It will address both short and long term challenges and solutions. The project provides new research information and analysis on mobility between Helsinki-Tallinn and the regional transport system.

The project has started with a comprehensive mobility study carried out by the research partners and the next phase is to build 2-3 scenarios on the future needs of the transport system. Scenario building is based on analyzing of mobility patterns and demand, and on identifying of bottlenecks and problems which transport operators, ferry passengers, entrepreneurs and municipalities meet. Third type of input to scenario building is mapping of all the relevant development projects, measures and strategies.

Stakeholders of the transport system are organized in three advisory focus groups: Transport, Business Development and Urban Planning. These groups together with the project partners work out the recommendations of future development of Helsinki-Tallinn region.

The first focus group on Urban Planning will convene on the 8th of September in Tallinn with the task to  act as expert reference group to feed and comment  the preparation of the transport scenarios.

 

Interregional roundtable Gulf of Finland – Baltic Sea Regional Transport Hub 2020?

The  interregional roundtable on “Gulf of Finland – Baltic Sea Regional Transport Hub 2020?” will take place on the 7th of April 2011 in the Estonian National Library in Tallinn.

The interregional roundtable is a joint event by two EU-funded projects, Helsinki -Tallinn Transport and Planning Scenarios
(H-TTransPlan) and Rail Baltica Growth Corridor (RBGC) supported by the national and regional governance in the area, cities of Helsinki, St Petersburg and Tallinn and enterprises in the logistics sector. 

The objective of the roundtable is to discuss the Gulf of Finland region’s transport challenges, visions and strategic initiatives. Tallinn-Helsinki transport system is both twin-regional and tightly integrated with broader Gulf of Finland area, as well as with the whole Baltic Sea Region. Rail Baltica project is the single largest development project in transport infrastructure in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region. Helsinki-Tallinn transport system is interrelated with Rail Baltica, and with the Rail Baltica Growth Corridor  project.

The roundtable will provide an input for the development work of Helsinki-Tallinn transport and planning scenarios in the coming two years of work in HTTransPlan. This roundtable is also a step in RBGC project in establishing of Rail Baltica Transport Forum, a transport political platform and  policy making arena for the Rail Baltica corridor stretching from Berlin to Tallinn/Helsinki and further to Saint Petersburg.

 

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